gradation

Example Sentences

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Americans have responded to increasing polarization by exploring the gradations between soft separatism and hard secession.

From Salon

If Trump embodies the most extreme side of the rhetoric, gradations within his party do exist.

From Washington Post

Although “High Country Crags and Moon” features a fine gradation of gray in the rock face, the impenetrable shadow in the foreground seems to break Adams’s own rules.

From New York Times

Exley juxtaposes the subtle color gradations of two dangling persimmons, their skins dappled with light and their leaves green but brown-edged.

From Washington Post

In other words, Americans range in vulnerability from the unvaccinated and never infected to the vaccinated, previously infected and fully boosted, with infinite gradations of protection in between.

From Los Angeles Times